safety regulations you're not paying very much attention. There's been widespread movements to eliminate regulations in all levels of government. I think we've been lucky that they haven't gotten that far yet. A lot of regulations come down from the EPA. Bush Jr was too busy with wars and Clinton/Obama were both the sorts not to allow it. But this newest administration has literally put someone in charge who has questioned whether the EPA should exist at all.
As the economy gets worse the pressure to cut costs will to. Meanwhile folks will turn to the kind of politicians that promise them quick answers and easy fixes. And I don't see our economy doing anything but getting worse.
Bottom line, I don't trust Americans. Make nuke plants cheaper to run safely than not or I'll oppose them. As mentioned I'm well aware this isn't rational behavior. But that's the point. None of this is rational. If human beings were rational we'd stop making tanks and build solar farms & desalination plants instead.
it's that it's harder to trace. In theory if you can keep your name from being associated with your wallet it's impossible to trace. But it doesn't need to be impossible. A locked car is harder to steal, not impossible to steal. Similarly you just need to make it hard enough to trace money laundering that the relevant authorities time/money runs out.
These purchases are mostly made by "whales". e.g. a small group of individuals who buy hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars worth of in game items; usually because they seek social standing and/or a circle of friends online. You can boycott them all you want. The point of these systems is to take advantage of psychologically vulnerable people and drain their bank accounts (or their parents bank accounts).
On a side note this is also why people describe these practices as predatory. The industry knows it too; which is why they didn't immediately self regulate. They're gonna get as much money in the door before the Feds come in and bust it all up.
What's infuriating about this isn't just that they're taking advantage of vulnerable nerds but that they're about to bring down the hammer on the entire industry and that hammer usually comes with a lot of collateral damage.
a. Privatization in America is pretty much inevitable because Americans do not trust government. It's cultural. It's hammered into you when you're young and impressionable.
b. Nuclear disasters are much, much worse and they affect everyone around for miles, not just the people in the immediate vicinity of the disaster.
There's a reason NIMBYism exists. It's irrational rationality. Running an unsafe nuclear power plant because you don't like paying taxes and don't trust the government is irrational. But if you've already accepted that level of irrationality then the next rational thing to do is not run the plant in the first place.
It's a catch 22 in the literal sense of the word. You'd have to be crazy to do it but you'd have to be crazy to not do it.
growth outside the developing world has more or less stopped. There's been a pretty large scale transference of wealth to the top earners here in America. I know Japan's got out of control wealth inequality and even Europe's starting to see it. Less money means smaller homes, less activity, fewer new electrical devices and above all fewer children. Combine that with new tech (LED bulbs, LCDs, new air conditioners and heaters) and it was bound to happen.
I don't think the owner's going to get out of insurance in the current scheme of things. Suing the manufacture is just too hard, folks will want to go after an owner/insurance company.
Now, what I'd _like_ to see is the main reason for mandatory car insurance go away: the absurd high cost of medical treatment following an accident. If we could get the US on single payer healthcare then the only thing left would be pain & suffering and car repair. p&s payouts can be huge but only in pretty rare cases (modern cars are crazy safe, you'd be amazed what you can walk away from). You'd see new players in the insurance biz as the risk dropped and lower prices as a result.
aka "Clean Coal". There's a reason there hasn't been much traction here. Yes, you can make a zero emission coal or gas fired plant. It's just not economical when compared to wind & solar.
The costs get inflated only if you ignore cost externalization (subsidies for one, but medical costs due to dirty air are pretty massive too). Nuclear would be fine if we could trust it to stay safe. But until you can convince Americans to stop privatizing everything or make a nuke plant that's cheaper to run safely than to run dangerously then nuke's a non-starter. Sooner or later we'll privatize it to save money and those savings will come at the cost of safety like they did over in Fukushima. Meanwhile the folks responsible for the inevitable disaster get off scott free.
or panic. But we're faced with a serious problem. 4 million people are going to become redundant in the next 20 years from retail & driving industries alone. A healthy amount of fear is called for. A lot of folks (especially the conservatives in America) won't react unless there's fear.
Moreover most folks are calling for the invisible hand to take care of this, making the argument that since it corrected itself during the last 3 industrial revs. Those people ignored enormous amount of unnecessary suffering.
Put another way, if a hungry bear is bearing (pun) down on you it's OK to be afraid. Maybe even panic a little. But if you've got a high powered rifle in hand you should shoot the damn thing instead of saying "Well, this mauling will work itself out".
on a click bait-y headline. Though to be honest after the $h!t show that was their extension API changes I was honestly prepared for something that boneheaded.
I often need to whack a broken cookie for a single site. Now I have to blow out all my logins (and worse, my user's logins) just to fix one bad cookie? Are they nuts? You can kiss FF goodbye in any environment more complex than grandma's surfing the net. Everybody else is going to get fed up the first time their IT whacks everything instead of the one busted cookie.
Cryptocurrencies are fundamentally different from other investments because there's nothing of intrinsic value behind them.
A bond has the government or company behind it. Commodities have the commodity itself.
I know the counter argument that a bond is only valuable because of it's fiat currency. But that fiat currency has an entire nation of workers behind it. Yes, a nation can collapse (as Zimbabwe did and Venezuela look to be doing) but barring a war with a much more powerful nation that's a slow process.
often late at night. Smelly Bums are fewer and farther between than that. People call Uber because the buses are massively underfunded. I used to sometimes ride my bike the 40 miles there/back because it was faster than waiting for the next bus (1 hour, 2 if you didn't want to wait at the bus for the 20 minute window that the bus might happen by during).
and do more actual policy. The right wing corporate Dems seem to be trying to use this to try and win voters back without actually implementing populist policy (Medicare for All, universal college, a New New Deal, $15 min wage, ending the 8 wars, etc, etc). It's not going to work. Maybe if they were as good a fearmongering as the Republicans are, but they're not. Instead we're gonna get another 4 years of Trump + Republican Congress. Probably another big market crash out of all the deregulation that's going on right now.
Trump won for two reasons. First, Hilary took victory for granted and didn't campaign in the swing states (she always was an arrogant bitch). But moreoever Trump ran as a left wing populist. He promised Health Care for all, Jobs for all, good pay for all. He promised the government wouldn't just stand idle while the working class got slapped around by the Invisible Hand. Sure, he lied through his teeth. But when your opponent promised basically nothing, well, like the man said, what have you got to lose?
They're required by law to call out any and all risks in these statements, no matter how remote. Also, the big worry is not so much serious competition from crypto currencies but that they might have to spend money responding to them. Bank of America, like most major US banks, has more than enough power to reign crypto currencies in before they're any real threat to them.
My point is, don't go expecting crypto currencies to shake up out monetary and/or banking system to any real degree. If you want to see meaningful change you need to get behind guys like Dylan Ratigan.
when a lawsuit was used to accomplish the deed? The fact remains that the American legal system was engaged to crush someone's speech. Yes, there's lots of extenuating circumstances here, but ultimately the sex tape isn't what got Gawker shut down, Peter Thiel did.
normally around that time the case is withdrawn, the two settle out of court and problem solved. Gawker knew what they were doing. It was a huge part of their job. Again, what they _didn't_ know is that Thiel was out for blood. If they had they would have shut the whole thing down and played nice with the judge.
Again, they thought it was a standard show trial. It wasn't. It was a well planned hit piece against one of the largest muckrackers in the business. Those muckrackers are generally the only ones that bring to light actually corruption. You think that bunch of milktoasts over at CNN would do that kind of work? MSNBC? They can't stop blathering about Russia. Fox had decades of _real_ corruption by Hillary Clinton they could have talked about but they waste their time with a pointless email scandal and crackpot conspiracy about Uranium that's easily disprove.
There's a reason the main stream media is basically useless for shining light on the cockroaches that run this joint. They're owned by those same cockroaches. Unless you can somehow get people to pay for investigative journalism without the muckracking (good luck with that) then this is how the sausage is made.
the Saudis would have moved against an American billionaire? You're simply not allowed to be that naive about how the world works. Laws apply differently to the ultra rich.
Show trials are a common thing in this world. They get the plaintiff publicity and sympathy to help them relaunch a career in show biz and the defendant sells papers/clicks. I suppose you could complain the courts shouldn't be used for this, but it's popular enough with the masses that it's allowed and it's mostly harmless. Gawker's mistake was not knowing Thiel was gunning for them. .
I keep saying this, but Theil didn't hate Gawker for outing him (he's a billionaire, at his level there are no consequences actual crimes let alone legal behavior), he hated them for writing stories about his shady business dealings. Gawker did a lot of tabloid journalism but they used it to fund a lot of real journalism; a tradition as old as journalism itself. What we old folk used to call muckracking.
that's the only thing left. It's got a high barrier to entry and a strong Union (the AMA). You might still get automated away, but right we all take our chances.
If you've got the chops for it there's still a career in mathematics. But don't confuse "working with computers" with mathematics. If you can't hack it in at least a 400 level math course then you have little future doing anything with computers for a living. You just can't compete with the double whammy that is offshore + H1-B.
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safety regulations you're not paying very much attention. There's been widespread movements to eliminate regulations in all levels of government. I think we've been lucky that they haven't gotten that far yet. A lot of regulations come down from the EPA. Bush Jr was too busy with wars and Clinton/Obama were both the sorts not to allow it. But this newest administration has literally put someone in charge who has questioned whether the EPA should exist at all.
As the economy gets worse the pressure to cut costs will to. Meanwhile folks will turn to the kind of politicians that promise them quick answers and easy fixes. And I don't see our economy doing anything but getting worse.
Bottom line, I don't trust Americans. Make nuke plants cheaper to run safely than not or I'll oppose them. As mentioned I'm well aware this isn't rational behavior. But that's the point. None of this is rational. If human beings were rational we'd stop making tanks and build solar farms & desalination plants instead.
it's that it's harder to trace. In theory if you can keep your name from being associated with your wallet it's impossible to trace. But it doesn't need to be impossible. A locked car is harder to steal, not impossible to steal. Similarly you just need to make it hard enough to trace money laundering that the relevant authorities time/money runs out.
These purchases are mostly made by "whales". e.g. a small group of individuals who buy hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars worth of in game items; usually because they seek social standing and/or a circle of friends online. You can boycott them all you want. The point of these systems is to take advantage of psychologically vulnerable people and drain their bank accounts (or their parents bank accounts).
On a side note this is also why people describe these practices as predatory. The industry knows it too; which is why they didn't immediately self regulate. They're gonna get as much money in the door before the Feds come in and bust it all up.
What's infuriating about this isn't just that they're taking advantage of vulnerable nerds but that they're about to bring down the hammer on the entire industry and that hammer usually comes with a lot of collateral damage.
in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
a. Privatization in America is pretty much inevitable because Americans do not trust government. It's cultural. It's hammered into you when you're young and impressionable.
b. Nuclear disasters are much, much worse and they affect everyone around for miles, not just the people in the immediate vicinity of the disaster.
There's a reason NIMBYism exists. It's irrational rationality. Running an unsafe nuclear power plant because you don't like paying taxes and don't trust the government is irrational. But if you've already accepted that level of irrationality then the next rational thing to do is not run the plant in the first place.
It's a catch 22 in the literal sense of the word. You'd have to be crazy to do it but you'd have to be crazy to not do it.
growth outside the developing world has more or less stopped. There's been a pretty large scale transference of wealth to the top earners here in America. I know Japan's got out of control wealth inequality and even Europe's starting to see it. Less money means smaller homes, less activity, fewer new electrical devices and above all fewer children. Combine that with new tech (LED bulbs, LCDs, new air conditioners and heaters) and it was bound to happen.
I don't think the owner's going to get out of insurance in the current scheme of things. Suing the manufacture is just too hard, folks will want to go after an owner/insurance company.
Now, what I'd _like_ to see is the main reason for mandatory car insurance go away: the absurd high cost of medical treatment following an accident. If we could get the US on single payer healthcare then the only thing left would be pain & suffering and car repair. p&s payouts can be huge but only in pretty rare cases (modern cars are crazy safe, you'd be amazed what you can walk away from). You'd see new players in the insurance biz as the risk dropped and lower prices as a result.
aka "Clean Coal". There's a reason there hasn't been much traction here. Yes, you can make a zero emission coal or gas fired plant. It's just not economical when compared to wind & solar.
The costs get inflated only if you ignore cost externalization (subsidies for one, but medical costs due to dirty air are pretty massive too). Nuclear would be fine if we could trust it to stay safe. But until you can convince Americans to stop privatizing everything or make a nuke plant that's cheaper to run safely than to run dangerously then nuke's a non-starter. Sooner or later we'll privatize it to save money and those savings will come at the cost of safety like they did over in Fukushima. Meanwhile the folks responsible for the inevitable disaster get off scott free.
the Coinbase guy seems to be making a valid argument and getting bitch slapped by the judge because he (she?) isn't a very good lawyer.
Shouldn't they need to have probably cause to pull the data from all 13k users?
here in America the cities are for the people... who can afford cars... and who don't mind 90 minute commutes.
or panic. But we're faced with a serious problem. 4 million people are going to become redundant in the next 20 years from retail & driving industries alone. A healthy amount of fear is called for. A lot of folks (especially the conservatives in America) won't react unless there's fear.
Moreover most folks are calling for the invisible hand to take care of this, making the argument that since it corrected itself during the last 3 industrial revs. Those people ignored enormous amount of unnecessary suffering.
Put another way, if a hungry bear is bearing (pun) down on you it's OK to be afraid. Maybe even panic a little. But if you've got a high powered rifle in hand you should shoot the damn thing instead of saying "Well, this mauling will work itself out".
on a click bait-y headline. Though to be honest after the $h!t show that was their extension API changes I was honestly prepared for something that boneheaded.
I often need to whack a broken cookie for a single site. Now I have to blow out all my logins (and worse, my user's logins) just to fix one bad cookie? Are they nuts? You can kiss FF goodbye in any environment more complex than grandma's surfing the net. Everybody else is going to get fed up the first time their IT whacks everything instead of the one busted cookie.
Cryptocurrencies are fundamentally different from other investments because there's nothing of intrinsic value behind them. A bond has the government or company behind it. Commodities have the commodity itself.
I know the counter argument that a bond is only valuable because of it's fiat currency. But that fiat currency has an entire nation of workers behind it. Yes, a nation can collapse (as Zimbabwe did and Venezuela look to be doing) but barring a war with a much more powerful nation that's a slow process.
often late at night. Smelly Bums are fewer and farther between than that. People call Uber because the buses are massively underfunded. I used to sometimes ride my bike the 40 miles there/back because it was faster than waiting for the next bus (1 hour, 2 if you didn't want to wait at the bus for the 20 minute window that the bus might happen by during).
what do you expect? Some like washing a fleet is the kind of thing they'll do once the whole "self driving" thing is worked out.
and do more actual policy. The right wing corporate Dems seem to be trying to use this to try and win voters back without actually implementing populist policy (Medicare for All, universal college, a New New Deal, $15 min wage, ending the 8 wars, etc, etc). It's not going to work. Maybe if they were as good a fearmongering as the Republicans are, but they're not. Instead we're gonna get another 4 years of Trump + Republican Congress. Probably another big market crash out of all the deregulation that's going on right now.
Trump won for two reasons. First, Hilary took victory for granted and didn't campaign in the swing states (she always was an arrogant bitch). But moreoever Trump ran as a left wing populist. He promised Health Care for all, Jobs for all, good pay for all. He promised the government wouldn't just stand idle while the working class got slapped around by the Invisible Hand. Sure, he lied through his teeth. But when your opponent promised basically nothing, well, like the man said, what have you got to lose?
because the opposition was actively hiding itself. Did you even RTFS much less TFA?
They're required by law to call out any and all risks in these statements, no matter how remote. Also, the big worry is not so much serious competition from crypto currencies but that they might have to spend money responding to them. Bank of America, like most major US banks, has more than enough power to reign crypto currencies in before they're any real threat to them.
My point is, don't go expecting crypto currencies to shake up out monetary and/or banking system to any real degree. If you want to see meaningful change you need to get behind guys like Dylan Ratigan.
when a lawsuit was used to accomplish the deed? The fact remains that the American legal system was engaged to crush someone's speech. Yes, there's lots of extenuating circumstances here, but ultimately the sex tape isn't what got Gawker shut down, Peter Thiel did.
normally around that time the case is withdrawn, the two settle out of court and problem solved. Gawker knew what they were doing. It was a huge part of their job. Again, what they _didn't_ know is that Thiel was out for blood. If they had they would have shut the whole thing down and played nice with the judge.
Again, they thought it was a standard show trial. It wasn't. It was a well planned hit piece against one of the largest muckrackers in the business. Those muckrackers are generally the only ones that bring to light actually corruption. You think that bunch of milktoasts over at CNN would do that kind of work? MSNBC? They can't stop blathering about Russia. Fox had decades of _real_ corruption by Hillary Clinton they could have talked about but they waste their time with a pointless email scandal and crackpot conspiracy about Uranium that's easily disprove.
There's a reason the main stream media is basically useless for shining light on the cockroaches that run this joint. They're owned by those same cockroaches. Unless you can somehow get people to pay for investigative journalism without the muckracking (good luck with that) then this is how the sausage is made.
the Saudis would have moved against an American billionaire? You're simply not allowed to be that naive about how the world works. Laws apply differently to the ultra rich.
Show trials are a common thing in this world. They get the plaintiff publicity and sympathy to help them relaunch a career in show biz and the defendant sells papers/clicks. I suppose you could complain the courts shouldn't be used for this, but it's popular enough with the masses that it's allowed and it's mostly harmless. Gawker's mistake was not knowing Thiel was gunning for them. .
I keep saying this, but Theil didn't hate Gawker for outing him (he's a billionaire, at his level there are no consequences actual crimes let alone legal behavior), he hated them for writing stories about his shady business dealings. Gawker did a lot of tabloid journalism but they used it to fund a lot of real journalism; a tradition as old as journalism itself. What we old folk used to call muckracking.
that's the only thing left. It's got a high barrier to entry and a strong Union (the AMA). You might still get automated away, but right we all take our chances.
If you've got the chops for it there's still a career in mathematics. But don't confuse "working with computers" with mathematics. If you can't hack it in at least a 400 level math course then you have little future doing anything with computers for a living. You just can't compete with the double whammy that is offshore + H1-B.